Lityński, an activist for Poland’s legendary Solidarity trade union in the 1980s, drowned attempting to rescue his dog after it ran out onto the ice on a river last month.
Under communism, Lityński was a prominent opposition activist and a co-founder of the anti-government Workers’ Defence Committee (KOR) organisation.
He was interned during the country’s martial law period until September 1982, then imprisoned.
After the fall of communism in 1989, he was a member of the lower house of Poland’s parliament until 2001. From 2010 to 2015, he served as an advisor to then-President Bronisław Komorowski.
He was 75 when he died.
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Source: PAP